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BR ttjtcL SOCIETY
ml Hlv7 & LOV. P-- Y oi.
Ill CJL'JilBlA, UO. 65211
1 75th Year No. 272 Good Morning! It's Saturday, July 30, 1983 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents
.1 downing around
A carnival at the Kinder Care Learning Center,
1626 Towne Drive, meant a painted face for 2- -
"" year- ol- d Monique Rowles, daughter of Eddy
Laura Embry photo
and Russana Rowles, 1 Rivera Drive. Other
toddlers chose to ride a pony at the Friday
morning affair.
Reagan: Cuba's stance
is proof pressure works
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Presi-dent
Reagan said Friday he is will-ing
to gi, re Fidel Castro " the benefit
of the doubt" in negotiations and be-lieves
that U. S. military pressure in
Central America has made Cuba and
Nicaragua more amenable to a
peaceful settlement.
Reagan made the remarks in the
Roosevelt Room of the White House
in a wide ranging hour- lon- g inter-view
to be broadcast on the Mc-
Laughlin Group program on NBC's
WRC- T- V in Washington at 6: 30 p. m.
CDT Saturday.
Castro told reporters in Santiago
de Cuba Thursday he would halt Cu-ban
military aid to Nicaragua if
agreement is reached for all coun-tries
to stop sending arms and advis-ers
to Central America, U. S. tele-vision
networks reported.
Castro said if there is an agree-ment
to withdraw advisers from all
Central American countries, Cuba
would be willing to withdraw its ad-visers.
" I think that I am willing to give
him the benefit of the doubt in any
negotiations and so forth," Reagan
said.
The president said he believes the
U. S. military buildup " and the whole
appearance that we are not going to
back away from what we think must
be done there" has caused Cuba to
soften its policy.
" But we will take the lead, and
we've said from the very beginning,
' yes,' we'd like a negotiated set-tlement
and a peace."
The president added, " If he is
really serious about this, I think it's
fine.
" And we're willing to participate
in anything, negotiations that will
lead to, No. 1, the recognition that in
El Salvador the solution must be by
democratic means, not by someone
trying to shoot their way into pow-er,"
he said.
Reagan was critical of the Organi-zation
of American States in not tak-ing
the lead in calling the Marxist
Sandmista government in Nicaragua
to task for not keeping its promises
to establish a democratic govern-ment.
" The Organization of American
States have been very late in this,
but I think they should insist on the
carrying out of the bargain that they
made with the Sandinista govern-ment,"
he said.
Reagan also said he believes the
OAS would be a better forum for a
negotiated settlement in Central
America than the " Contadora
Group," made up of Mexico, Pana-ma,
Venezuela and Colombia, be-cause
" it would be broader ... it
would include all the American
states. And they were the ones to
whom the promise was made."
He added that he thought the Con-tadora
Group is " well intentioned"
and wants to find an answer, but he
said " they've been trying to appear
totally neutral with regard to fac-tions
there."
Reagan said the " ideal would be if
Castro and the Castro government
would simply decide that they
wanted to rejoin the family of Amer
ican nations and sever their ties with
the Soviet Union, and become Amer-ican
again."
He told the correspondent he did
not know whether public and con-gressional
opposition to his moves in
Central America and funding of co-vert
aid were due to " plain partisan
politics on the part of some" or
" honest misunderstanding."
He said, " I couldn't beleive con-gressmen,
standing up and talking
about Castro wanting peace and
we're the villain, he isn't."
Reagan also chided former IVesi- den- t
Jimmy Carter for saying " Kl
Salvador is the most bloodthirsty
government in the hemisphere."
" I couldn't believe it when I heard
that statement," he said. " It borders
on the ridiculous that El Salvador's
government duly elected b the peo-ple
with over 80 percent of the people
going to the polls to vote. ' '
The president also held a final
meeting with Ins deputy national . s-ecurity
adviser. Robert McFarlane.
and hb deputy, Richard Fairbanks,
who are embarking on a Middle East
shuttle as the president's new trouble- s-hooters
in the region.
McFarlane will attempt to per-suade
Syria to withdraw its troops
from Iebancn, clearing the wa for
a parallel Israeli withdrawal.
Reagan met Thursday with Israeli
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir
and Defense Minister Moshe Aren. s
and received a pledge that Israel's
troop redeployment in I Lebanon is a
step in the total withdrawal of the
forces.
City opens the fiscal cookie jar
despite finance chief's warning
By Scott Anderson
Missourian staff writer
For the first time in Columbia's
history, the city government has be-gun
dipping aggressively into what
is known in budgetary jargon as the
unappropriated fund balance. In lay-men's
terms, that's a surplus fund
that has been building over the years
when revenue exceeded expendi-tures.
" This is first time that we are
spending a large part of that unap-propriated
fund balance," says Har-old
Boldt, director of the city's fi- -
DB0DK?
nance department. " That's why I
have warned the council revenue
estimates are tight, and we are
spending pretty close to what we
thought we would. In years past, we
were more conservative, underesti-mating
revenues and overestimating
expenditures."
Not only must Boldt keep a wary
eye on the current drain, but he also
must figure out how much money
the city will need next year. He is
overseeing development of the fiscal
1984 budget City Manager Dick Gray
will present to the City Council at its
Monday meeting.
At the moment, the city has about
$ 2.9 million in its surplus fund,
according to Boldt. Last year, city
budget planners designated $ 800,000
of that figure to supplement any city
operations that exceeded their regu-lar
budget or the fund one- tim- e ex-penses
such as equipment pur-chases.
Until this year, the city did
not use any significant portions of
the unappropriated fund, says Boldt.
He says about $ 500,000 will have
been used before this fiscal year
ends Sept. 30.
The money was used to support
the CARE program, renovations to
the Howard building and purcliases
for the police and fire departments,
says Sam Evins, one of Boldt's as-sistants.
The CARE program, which
stands for Career Awareness and
Related Experience, provides sum-mer
employment and vocational
guidance to 150 area youth The par-ticipants,
ages 14- 1- 7. receive a mini-mum
wage of $ 3.35 for 240 hours of
work. They also attend a half da of
classes designed to increase their
awareness of possible careers. The
CARE program and the renovations
each have cost the cit about $ 176,- 00- 0,
Evins says.
Fourth Ward City Councilman Pat
Barnes considers the drain a warn- -
See GROWTH. Page 8A
Fans Maze in popularity as well as in sales
From staff and wire services
Sales of fans and air conditioners
in Columbia are going the way of the
temperatures: up.
i Searing temperatures are ex
pected to plague Missouri for at
least another week, the National
Weather Service said Friday, and
many Columbians have decided not
to sweat it out.
Shirley Jenkins, manager of
Downtown Appliances, 1104 E.
Broadway, said the sir- conditioni- ng
; business has been pretty brisk. She
says the store has sold as many as
five air conditioners each day since
the neat's been on.
Forty deaths in the state this
5 month are blamed on the heatwave,
and area residents have been rally-ing
to help the elderly keep cooler.
The Columbia and Boone County Cri-sis
Steering Committee has given 64
fans to people who cannot afford to
bay them. Forty- fiv- e of the fans
I were donated and the rest were
I bought with $ 700 donated by mem- -
I bers of the community.
Heat to drag on for a week
David Walthall, senior advocate at
the Boone County Council for the Ag-ing,
said he is proud of the fine re-sponse
of Columbians to the heat cri-sis.
Bill Scheider, the manager of rates for fiscal planning, said Co-lumbia
is nearing a point at which
heavy power use will begin to cost
the consumer. Peak rates are
charged when the power plant is
forced to meet a demand of more
than 124,000 kilowatts. So far this
summer, only 121,000 kilowatts have
been used at one time. The city has
been asking people to conserve in
the late afternoon and early evening.
Peak power costs residents 5 percent
more than non- pea- k power.
A weak weather system trailing
from northern Illinois into central
Kansas was expected to provide
temporary relief to Missouri for
some 20 to 30 percent of the popula-tion,
with thunderstorms expected in
the late afternoon and night the next
couple of days, the weather bureau
said.
However, current weather maps
indicate that hot and very humid
conditions are likely to persist
through next week the first week
of August with afternoon readings
generally 95 to 105 degrees.
The state forecast includes clear
to partly cloudy skies and continued
hot and humid conditions through
Saturday, with scattered thunder-storms.
Highs will be in the lower to
mid 90s for much of the state. Highs
Sunday around 90.
St. Louis issued a " heat alert" Fri-day,
and St. Louis County Health D-irector
Ken Baldwin Friday re-instated
a heat warning that had
been lifted during a brief spell of
cooler temperatures earlier this
week.
The St. Louis area forecast for Sat-urday
included more hot and humid
weather, a 30 percent chance for
thunderstorms and highs of 95 to 100.
The latest victim of the heat was a
Sikeston woman, Effie M. Beaird,
84, who was believed to have col-lapsed
after gardening. Her body
was found Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma imposed a
heat emergency Friday and temper-atures
topped 100.
Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh or-dered
a statewide emergency and or-dered
daily inspections for excessive
heat at all nursing homes and board-ing
houses. Nigh said the inspections
would continue until the hot spell is
over.
He urged all mayors and city offi- cials to keep " all public facilities" open seven days a week, with ex- tended hours.
He recommended that libraries,
senior citizens centers, city halls and
community centers be kept open in
early evening hours to serve as shel- ters from the heat.
Oklahoma temperatures went over
100 for the eighth day. It was 103 at
Alstus, 101 at Hobart and 100 at Tul-sa.
Key to savings for Columbia
is renewal of half- ce- nt tax law
By Scott Anderson
Missourian staff writer
As if city officials didn't have
enough financial headaches. They
may have to come up with a way to
offset losses that would result if the
Missouri legislature doesn't change
its mind about renewing a half-- cent
transportation tax.
During its past session, the legis-lature
failed to renew a law allowing
Columbia and seven other Missouri
cities to collect the tax after Dec. 31 .
City finance director Harold Boldt
is confident, however, that the tax
will be renewed during the upcoming
special session of the legislature. It
would be politically unwise not to, he
explains.
" The half-- cent transportation tax
is tied to St. Louis county," he says.
" They depend on the fund for practi-cally
all their transportation needs."
He is so confident, in fact, that he
is including $ 2.7 million the
amount the tax generated locally
last year in the city budget for
next fiscal year.
If worse comes to worst and the
legislature doesn't renew the tax,
city property owners probably could
expect to see a 52 percent increase in
their taxes to 64 cents per $ 100 of
assessed valuation. And that
wouldn't cover the entire loss, savs
Boldt.
Bus subsidies amd funds for police
salaries currently generated by the
tax would have to come from the
city's surplus fund.
That won't be necessan . savs
Rep. Ken Jacob, D- Colum-bia.
He.
too. is confident the tax will be re-newed.
" The governor has said it will be
dealt with in the October special ses-sion,"
he says. " I know it will be
passed."
GTE asks 15C more monthly,
one- fift- h of original request
By Jonalyn Schuon
Missourian staff writer
Columbians phone bills would
rise by 15 cents per month start-ing
Aug. 15, if the Public Service
Commission approves recom-mendations
of its staff and Gener-al
Telephone Co..
Both groups Friday proposed
the commission accept a plan to
boost telephone rates by $ 997,000
less than a fifth of GTE's origi-nal
$ 5.4 million request.
The 15- ce- nt increase would be
tacked onto residents' monthly
base rates to pay for Columbia's
extended area service or EAS.
Such service allows for non- to- ll
calls to areas that ordinarily
would be considered long- distanc- e.
The proposed rate restruc-turing
for EAS was determined
by a GTE cost study. Charges
vary by exchange.
The current rate for Columbia
and outlying areas is $ 7.35, in-cluding
the EAS charge. Ashland
rates would increase by 10 cents,
Hallsville rates would rise by 55
cents, and Rocheport residents
would pay $ 1.10 more each
month. Harrisburg residents will
be the only people in the extended
Columbia area that will take a
rate decrease; their monthly bill
will drop by 65 cents.
The cost to an individual who
picks up and installs his own
phone in a prewired jack would
drop by almost one third, from
$ 29.75 to $ 20.65, and an easier,
four- mon- th payment plan would
be available for installation
charges by the end of 1984.
Most of the rate hike, however,
would be absorbed by businesses
that rent switchboards and termi-nal
equipment from GTE.
The commission is scheduled to
vote on the proposal within the
next two weeks.

BR ttjtcL SOCIETY
ml Hlv7 & LOV. P-- Y oi.
Ill CJL'JilBlA, UO. 65211
1 75th Year No. 272 Good Morning! It's Saturday, July 30, 1983 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents
.1 downing around
A carnival at the Kinder Care Learning Center,
1626 Towne Drive, meant a painted face for 2- -
"" year- ol- d Monique Rowles, daughter of Eddy
Laura Embry photo
and Russana Rowles, 1 Rivera Drive. Other
toddlers chose to ride a pony at the Friday
morning affair.
Reagan: Cuba's stance
is proof pressure works
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Presi-dent
Reagan said Friday he is will-ing
to gi, re Fidel Castro " the benefit
of the doubt" in negotiations and be-lieves
that U. S. military pressure in
Central America has made Cuba and
Nicaragua more amenable to a
peaceful settlement.
Reagan made the remarks in the
Roosevelt Room of the White House
in a wide ranging hour- lon- g inter-view
to be broadcast on the Mc-
Laughlin Group program on NBC's
WRC- T- V in Washington at 6: 30 p. m.
CDT Saturday.
Castro told reporters in Santiago
de Cuba Thursday he would halt Cu-ban
military aid to Nicaragua if
agreement is reached for all coun-tries
to stop sending arms and advis-ers
to Central America, U. S. tele-vision
networks reported.
Castro said if there is an agree-ment
to withdraw advisers from all
Central American countries, Cuba
would be willing to withdraw its ad-visers.
" I think that I am willing to give
him the benefit of the doubt in any
negotiations and so forth," Reagan
said.
The president said he believes the
U. S. military buildup " and the whole
appearance that we are not going to
back away from what we think must
be done there" has caused Cuba to
soften its policy.
" But we will take the lead, and
we've said from the very beginning,
' yes,' we'd like a negotiated set-tlement
and a peace."
The president added, " If he is
really serious about this, I think it's
fine.
" And we're willing to participate
in anything, negotiations that will
lead to, No. 1, the recognition that in
El Salvador the solution must be by
democratic means, not by someone
trying to shoot their way into pow-er,"
he said.
Reagan was critical of the Organi-zation
of American States in not tak-ing
the lead in calling the Marxist
Sandmista government in Nicaragua
to task for not keeping its promises
to establish a democratic govern-ment.
" The Organization of American
States have been very late in this,
but I think they should insist on the
carrying out of the bargain that they
made with the Sandinista govern-ment,"
he said.
Reagan also said he believes the
OAS would be a better forum for a
negotiated settlement in Central
America than the " Contadora
Group," made up of Mexico, Pana-ma,
Venezuela and Colombia, be-cause
" it would be broader ... it
would include all the American
states. And they were the ones to
whom the promise was made."
He added that he thought the Con-tadora
Group is " well intentioned"
and wants to find an answer, but he
said " they've been trying to appear
totally neutral with regard to fac-tions
there."
Reagan said the " ideal would be if
Castro and the Castro government
would simply decide that they
wanted to rejoin the family of Amer
ican nations and sever their ties with
the Soviet Union, and become Amer-ican
again."
He told the correspondent he did
not know whether public and con-gressional
opposition to his moves in
Central America and funding of co-vert
aid were due to " plain partisan
politics on the part of some" or
" honest misunderstanding."
He said, " I couldn't beleive con-gressmen,
standing up and talking
about Castro wanting peace and
we're the villain, he isn't."
Reagan also chided former IVesi- den- t
Jimmy Carter for saying " Kl
Salvador is the most bloodthirsty
government in the hemisphere."
" I couldn't believe it when I heard
that statement," he said. " It borders
on the ridiculous that El Salvador's
government duly elected b the peo-ple
with over 80 percent of the people
going to the polls to vote. ' '
The president also held a final
meeting with Ins deputy national . s-ecurity
adviser. Robert McFarlane.
and hb deputy, Richard Fairbanks,
who are embarking on a Middle East
shuttle as the president's new trouble- s-hooters
in the region.
McFarlane will attempt to per-suade
Syria to withdraw its troops
from Iebancn, clearing the wa for
a parallel Israeli withdrawal.
Reagan met Thursday with Israeli
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir
and Defense Minister Moshe Aren. s
and received a pledge that Israel's
troop redeployment in I Lebanon is a
step in the total withdrawal of the
forces.
City opens the fiscal cookie jar
despite finance chief's warning
By Scott Anderson
Missourian staff writer
For the first time in Columbia's
history, the city government has be-gun
dipping aggressively into what
is known in budgetary jargon as the
unappropriated fund balance. In lay-men's
terms, that's a surplus fund
that has been building over the years
when revenue exceeded expendi-tures.
" This is first time that we are
spending a large part of that unap-propriated
fund balance," says Har-old
Boldt, director of the city's fi- -
DB0DK?
nance department. " That's why I
have warned the council revenue
estimates are tight, and we are
spending pretty close to what we
thought we would. In years past, we
were more conservative, underesti-mating
revenues and overestimating
expenditures."
Not only must Boldt keep a wary
eye on the current drain, but he also
must figure out how much money
the city will need next year. He is
overseeing development of the fiscal
1984 budget City Manager Dick Gray
will present to the City Council at its
Monday meeting.
At the moment, the city has about
$ 2.9 million in its surplus fund,
according to Boldt. Last year, city
budget planners designated $ 800,000
of that figure to supplement any city
operations that exceeded their regu-lar
budget or the fund one- tim- e ex-penses
such as equipment pur-chases.
Until this year, the city did
not use any significant portions of
the unappropriated fund, says Boldt.
He says about $ 500,000 will have
been used before this fiscal year
ends Sept. 30.
The money was used to support
the CARE program, renovations to
the Howard building and purcliases
for the police and fire departments,
says Sam Evins, one of Boldt's as-sistants.
The CARE program, which
stands for Career Awareness and
Related Experience, provides sum-mer
employment and vocational
guidance to 150 area youth The par-ticipants,
ages 14- 1- 7. receive a mini-mum
wage of $ 3.35 for 240 hours of
work. They also attend a half da of
classes designed to increase their
awareness of possible careers. The
CARE program and the renovations
each have cost the cit about $ 176,- 00- 0,
Evins says.
Fourth Ward City Councilman Pat
Barnes considers the drain a warn- -
See GROWTH. Page 8A
Fans Maze in popularity as well as in sales
From staff and wire services
Sales of fans and air conditioners
in Columbia are going the way of the
temperatures: up.
i Searing temperatures are ex
pected to plague Missouri for at
least another week, the National
Weather Service said Friday, and
many Columbians have decided not
to sweat it out.
Shirley Jenkins, manager of
Downtown Appliances, 1104 E.
Broadway, said the sir- conditioni- ng
; business has been pretty brisk. She
says the store has sold as many as
five air conditioners each day since
the neat's been on.
Forty deaths in the state this
5 month are blamed on the heatwave,
and area residents have been rally-ing
to help the elderly keep cooler.
The Columbia and Boone County Cri-sis
Steering Committee has given 64
fans to people who cannot afford to
bay them. Forty- fiv- e of the fans
I were donated and the rest were
I bought with $ 700 donated by mem- -
I bers of the community.
Heat to drag on for a week
David Walthall, senior advocate at
the Boone County Council for the Ag-ing,
said he is proud of the fine re-sponse
of Columbians to the heat cri-sis.
Bill Scheider, the manager of rates for fiscal planning, said Co-lumbia
is nearing a point at which
heavy power use will begin to cost
the consumer. Peak rates are
charged when the power plant is
forced to meet a demand of more
than 124,000 kilowatts. So far this
summer, only 121,000 kilowatts have
been used at one time. The city has
been asking people to conserve in
the late afternoon and early evening.
Peak power costs residents 5 percent
more than non- pea- k power.
A weak weather system trailing
from northern Illinois into central
Kansas was expected to provide
temporary relief to Missouri for
some 20 to 30 percent of the popula-tion,
with thunderstorms expected in
the late afternoon and night the next
couple of days, the weather bureau
said.
However, current weather maps
indicate that hot and very humid
conditions are likely to persist
through next week the first week
of August with afternoon readings
generally 95 to 105 degrees.
The state forecast includes clear
to partly cloudy skies and continued
hot and humid conditions through
Saturday, with scattered thunder-storms.
Highs will be in the lower to
mid 90s for much of the state. Highs
Sunday around 90.
St. Louis issued a " heat alert" Fri-day,
and St. Louis County Health D-irector
Ken Baldwin Friday re-instated
a heat warning that had
been lifted during a brief spell of
cooler temperatures earlier this
week.
The St. Louis area forecast for Sat-urday
included more hot and humid
weather, a 30 percent chance for
thunderstorms and highs of 95 to 100.
The latest victim of the heat was a
Sikeston woman, Effie M. Beaird,
84, who was believed to have col-lapsed
after gardening. Her body
was found Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma imposed a
heat emergency Friday and temper-atures
topped 100.
Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh or-dered
a statewide emergency and or-dered
daily inspections for excessive
heat at all nursing homes and board-ing
houses. Nigh said the inspections
would continue until the hot spell is
over.
He urged all mayors and city offi- cials to keep " all public facilities" open seven days a week, with ex- tended hours.
He recommended that libraries,
senior citizens centers, city halls and
community centers be kept open in
early evening hours to serve as shel- ters from the heat.
Oklahoma temperatures went over
100 for the eighth day. It was 103 at
Alstus, 101 at Hobart and 100 at Tul-sa.
Key to savings for Columbia
is renewal of half- ce- nt tax law
By Scott Anderson
Missourian staff writer
As if city officials didn't have
enough financial headaches. They
may have to come up with a way to
offset losses that would result if the
Missouri legislature doesn't change
its mind about renewing a half-- cent
transportation tax.
During its past session, the legis-lature
failed to renew a law allowing
Columbia and seven other Missouri
cities to collect the tax after Dec. 31 .
City finance director Harold Boldt
is confident, however, that the tax
will be renewed during the upcoming
special session of the legislature. It
would be politically unwise not to, he
explains.
" The half-- cent transportation tax
is tied to St. Louis county," he says.
" They depend on the fund for practi-cally
all their transportation needs."
He is so confident, in fact, that he
is including $ 2.7 million the
amount the tax generated locally
last year in the city budget for
next fiscal year.
If worse comes to worst and the
legislature doesn't renew the tax,
city property owners probably could
expect to see a 52 percent increase in
their taxes to 64 cents per $ 100 of
assessed valuation. And that
wouldn't cover the entire loss, savs
Boldt.
Bus subsidies amd funds for police
salaries currently generated by the
tax would have to come from the
city's surplus fund.
That won't be necessan . savs
Rep. Ken Jacob, D- Colum-bia.
He.
too. is confident the tax will be re-newed.
" The governor has said it will be
dealt with in the October special ses-sion,"
he says. " I know it will be
passed."
GTE asks 15C more monthly,
one- fift- h of original request
By Jonalyn Schuon
Missourian staff writer
Columbians phone bills would
rise by 15 cents per month start-ing
Aug. 15, if the Public Service
Commission approves recom-mendations
of its staff and Gener-al
Telephone Co..
Both groups Friday proposed
the commission accept a plan to
boost telephone rates by $ 997,000
less than a fifth of GTE's origi-nal
$ 5.4 million request.
The 15- ce- nt increase would be
tacked onto residents' monthly
base rates to pay for Columbia's
extended area service or EAS.
Such service allows for non- to- ll
calls to areas that ordinarily
would be considered long- distanc- e.
The proposed rate restruc-turing
for EAS was determined
by a GTE cost study. Charges
vary by exchange.
The current rate for Columbia
and outlying areas is $ 7.35, in-cluding
the EAS charge. Ashland
rates would increase by 10 cents,
Hallsville rates would rise by 55
cents, and Rocheport residents
would pay $ 1.10 more each
month. Harrisburg residents will
be the only people in the extended
Columbia area that will take a
rate decrease; their monthly bill
will drop by 65 cents.
The cost to an individual who
picks up and installs his own
phone in a prewired jack would
drop by almost one third, from
$ 29.75 to $ 20.65, and an easier,
four- mon- th payment plan would
be available for installation
charges by the end of 1984.
Most of the rate hike, however,
would be absorbed by businesses
that rent switchboards and termi-nal
equipment from GTE.
The commission is scheduled to
vote on the proposal within the
next two weeks.